The Sinister Beauty of Global Conspiracies

[Dave Monroe]

The 'Conspiracy' Art of Mark Lombardi 
Late Artist's Swirling Diagrams Chart Scandalous
Relationships

Nov. 1, 2003 -- A few weeks after the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks, an FBI agent called the Whitney
Museum of American Art and asked to see a drawing on
exhibit there. The piece was by Mark Lombardi, an
artist who had committed suicide the year before.
Using just a pencil and a huge sheet of paper,
Lombardi had created an intricate pattern of curves
and arcs to illustrate the links between global
finance and international terrorism.

In other drawings, Lombardi explored subjects ranging
from the collapse of the Vatican bank to the
Iran-Contra scandal. The results are not only detailed
slices of history, but also works of art -- some
looking like constellations of stars on a dark night,
others swirling clouds of abstract lines and points.

A traveling show of Lombardi's work opens this weekend
at the Drawing Center in New York City. NPR's Lynn
Neary spoke to exhibit curator Robert Hobbs, professor
of art history at Virginia Commonwealth University,
who discusses why Lombardi's work should be considered
art, and not just good research. 

http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1487185.html

Recalling ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0310&msg=86816&sort=date


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